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First Round of Abstract Submission Ends: Dec 30, 2026
Extended Early Bird Ends: May 28, 2026

Keynote Speakers

Prof. Mohamed EL MANKIBI
University of Lyon, France
Title: To be confirmed
EL MANKIBI Mohamed is a Research Director and Professor at ENTPE/university of Lyon (France) member of LTDS Laboratory (CNRS UMR5513). He has a PhD degree (Hybrid Ventilation control strategies design and assessment), the accreditation to direct and manage research and qualified as international expert by the French Ministry of Ecological Transition. He is the manager and Supervisor of building-related courses of ENTPE and Co-creator and Manager of several Master degrees related to “Green Building”. Highly evolved in Green and Low Impact Buildings design and optimization programs, he has two major fields of research: one is related to the dynamic simulation of thermal and aeraulic phenomena in buildings, the other is related to the multi-objective optimization of Building systems and renewable energy while studying occupants’ behavior integration. El Mankibi has been involved in many tasks of the International Energy Agency (ECES and ECBCS programs). He has taken part to several national research projects as coordinator or partner as well as European/International projects. He has developed several original models and experimental devices and initiated and led partnerships with the building industry and urban planning stakeholders. He has been invited as professor/researcher by the University of Colorado at Boulder, Concordia University of Montreal, Hunan university, and Green Energy Park (Morocco) as well as several Moroccan universities.
Prof. Farhad Shahnia
Murdoch University, Australia
Title: Recent and Future Research on Microgrid Clusters
Professor Farhad Shahnia received his PhD in Electrical Engineering from Queensland University of Technology (QUT), Brisbane, in 2012. He is currently a Professor at Murdoch University. Before that, he was a Lecturer at Curtin University (2012-15), a research scholar at QUT (2008-11), and an R&D engineer at the Eastern Azarbayjan Electric Power Distribution Company, Iran (2005-08). He is currently a Fellow member of Engineers Australia, Senior Member of IEEE, and member of the Australasian Association for Engineering Education.

Farhad’s research falls under Distribution networks, Microgrid and Smart grid concepts. He has authored one book and 11 book chapters and 250+ peer-reviewed scholarly articles in international conferences and journals, as well as being an editor of 10 books.

Farhad has won 5 Best Paper Awards in various conferences and has also received the IET Premium Award for the Best Paper published in the IET Generation, Transmission & Distribution journal in 2015. One of his articles was listed under the top-25 most cited articles in the Electric Power System Research Journal in 2015 while one of his 2015 journal articles has been listed under the top-5 most read articles of the Australian Journal of Electrical and Electronics Engineering. He was the recipient of the Postgraduate Research Supervisor Award from Curtin University in 2015 and the Australia-China Young Scientist Exchange Award from the Australian Academy of Technology and Engineering in 2016.

Farhad is currently a Subject Editor, Deputy Subject Editor, and Associate Editor of several journals including IEEE Access, IET Generation, Transmission & Distribution, IET Renewable Power Generation, IET Smart Grid, IET Energy Conversion and Economics, and International Transaction on Electrical Energy Systems and has served 60+ conferences in various roles such as General, Technical, Program, Publication, Publicity, Award, Sponsorship, and Special Session Chairs.

Farhad has led the IEEE Western Australia Section as the 2020-2021 Chair, and was the 2019 Founding Chair of the IEEE Western Australia Industrial Electronics Society (IES) Chapter. He was the 2023 Vice-chair of the IES’s Technical Committees on Smart Grids.
Dr. Tanya Kirilova Gachovska
Senior Power Engineer, Canada
Title: Achieving High-Efficiency Power Conversion with GaN and SiC Transistors: Gate Drivers, Current Sensing, and Digital Control
Dr. Tanya Kirilova Gachovska, P.Eng., is a Senior Power Engineer at in Montréal, Canada, specializing in high-efficiency power electronics and advanced semiconductor technologies. She is a Senior Member of the and an active contributor to both the power electronics and bioelectrics communities.

Dr. Gachovska earned two Master’s degrees from the University of Ruse, Bulgaria, in Electrical Engineering and Ergonomics and Design (1985–1991). Then she started as an Assistant Professor, where she completed her first Ph.D. focused on the application on pulsed electric fields (PEF) for accelerated tobacco drying.

Following her immigration to Canada in 2003, Dr. Gachovska joined as a Postdoctoral Research Scientist, conducting research on PEF for bacterial inactivation, juice and phytochemical extraction, and drying enhancement technologies. She later continued her postdoctoral research at, working on nonthermal food preservation technologies involving pulsed electric fields, UVC light, and ultrasound.

Dr. Gachovska subsequently completed a second Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering with specialization in Power Electronics at the University of Nebraska–Lincoln. Her dissertation, “Modeling of Power Semiconductor Devices,” marked the transition of her research from bioelectrics to power electronics.

She spent seven years in the semiconductor industry and currently works at MDA in Montréal on advanced power electronics for aerospace applications. Dr. Gachovska has authored or co-authored more than 30 technical papers and conference presentations, two books, and two book chapters, and holds an international patent in pulsed electric field technology.

Licensed as a Professional Engineer in Ontario since 2019, Dr. Gachovska has held numerous IEEE leadership positions, including Chair of the IEEE PELS and RS Joint Chapters in both Ottawa and Montréal. She also served as Chair, Vice Chair, and Secretary of the IEEE IAS Power Electronics Devices and Components Committee (PEDCC) between 2016 and 2021. She currently serves as PEDCC Standards Chair and leads IEEE standardization activities in the areas of integrated gate driver datasheet parameters and UVC LED air disinfection systems.

In recognition of her technical leadership, mentorship, and educational contributions, Dr. Gachovska received the IEEE IAS Outstanding Educator/Mentor Award in 2025.
Prof. Fateh Krim
University of Sétif, Algeria
Title: To be confirmed
Fateh Krim received B.Sc. degree from Claude Bernard University of Lyon, France, in 1976, M. Sc and Engineer degrees in electrical engineering from Ecole Centrale , Lyon, in 1979, the Ph D from Polytechnic National Institute of Grenoble, France , and the special doctorate from University of Sétif, Algeria, in 1982 and 1996 respectively. He was head of IC design department at CIT-Alcatel, Paris, France. He is currently a Professor Emeritus of electrical engineering at University of Sétif, Algeria and Director of power electronics and industrial control laboratory. His main research interests are systems control, power and industrial electronics, renewable energies. In these fields, he has more than 250 papers in international journals and refereed conference proceedings. He is associate editor or editorial member of eight international journals. Professor Fateh Krim is a senior IEEE Member and member of IEEE Industrial Electronics Society, IEEE Power Electronics Society, IEEE Power Engineering Society IEEE Computational Intelligence Society. He was president of IEEE Algeria Section and Industrial electronics and Industry applications joint chapter.
Prof. Yousef Farhaoui
Université Moulay Ismail, Morocco
Title: Artificial Intelligence and Intelligent Data Analytics for Smart Energy, Sustainable Systems, and Future Industrial Applications
Prof. Yousef Farhaoui is a Professor and Researcher in Computer Science and Director of the IMIA Laboratory. His research interests include Artificial Intelligence, Big Data Analytics, Smart Systems, Internet of Things, Intelligent Networks, Machine Learning, Explainable AI, and Digital Transformation Technologies. He has served as Conference Chair, Guest Editor, and Technical Committee Member for several international conferences and scientific journals. Prof. Farhaoui has authored and co-authored numerous scientific publications in the fields of AI, intelligent systems, cybersecurity, data science, and sustainable digital technologies. He is also actively involved in international academic collaborations and interdisciplinary research initiatives related to smart environments and intelligent computing systems.
Prof. Constantin Volosencu
Politehnica Univ. Timisoara, Romania
Title: Will Update
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Prof. Reinhard F. Hüttl
Brandenburg University of Technology, Germany
Title: To be confirmed.
After studying in Germany and the USA and earning his doctorate, Reinhard Hüttl, a forestry and soil scientist, was head of the international research department of Kali und Salz (BASF-Group) in Kassel, Germany from 1986 to 1992.

After a professorship in Hawaii (1990/91) he held the Chair of Soil Protection and Recultivation at the Brandenburg University of Technology in Cottbus, Germany from 1993 to 2021. From 2007 to 2021 he was also Scientific Director and Chairman of the Board of the German Research Center for Geosciences (GFZ) in Potsdam. Since 2021, he is Scientific Director and Managing Associate of the Eco-Environment Innovation eGbR in Berlin.

From 1996 to 2000 he was member of the German Government's Expert Council on the Environment, from 2000 to 2006 member of the National Science Council. He was president and member of the German Bioeconomy Council from 2009 to 2019. From 2012 to 2021 he served on the jury of the Queen Elizabeth Prize for Engineering, London, UK.

From 2008 to 2017, he was president of the German National Academy of Science and Engineering (acatech). Reinhard Hüttl is also member of further science academies (e.g. Swedish Royal Academy of Agriculture and Forestry). From 2013 to 2019, he was president of Euro-CASE, Paris, France. Since 2025 he is the representative of acatech in Euro-CASE where he leads a working group on soils. 2022 he initiated an interdisciplinary soil group for the Nantesbuch Foundation for Art and Nature (SKN).